Selective facts
Sir: Matt Ridley’s article on Darwin’s vision (‘Natural selection explains everything’, 10 January) omits one simple but very important fact, namely that Darwin did not originate natural selection. How do we know?
Simple — both he and Alfred Russel Wallace gave the credit to Patrick Matthew and Charles Wells.
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